Saturday, January 5, 2008

So, I understand you can see that I haven't posted in quite some time. I'm sure that it's been keeping you up at night, wondering just what I've been up to.

Well, it turns out that running a radio station can take up a good bit of time. With the addition of our new program and taking care of all necessary reports for the end of the year, I just couldn't make the trip over to the old blog page and put anything of substance down. Not that I was going with anything of substance to begin with.

Anyways, this is what I think:

Trade Pau. I understand that this position is nothing new. However, Chris Vernon asked Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace a question last week that referred to Wallace sitting in Boston for a long time while they were bad, and never making the moves needed to make them a long-term success. Pretty tough question on a guy that's nice enough to come on our shows at least once a week.

But this is a perfect opportunity. No - it's THE opportunity for Wallace to do 2 things:1) Improve the team long-term. Maybe the Grizz won't get as good of a player if Gasol is moved, but they will improve the team. This team is in desperate need of a hustle player, a locker-room leader, and someone that the community can rally around.2) Make a definitive statement that will put Chris Wallace's stamp on the Grizzlies as a team that he has created. And I don't think he wants that stamp to be signing Darko and Juan-Carlos.

There was a great article on Chris Wallace in The Boston Globe that talked about how Wallace was never really given the reigns in Boston. Well, now he has his chance.